Bug Out Bag Essentials...

I don't normally post on the days that I work -- it's just creepy to blog so late at night. This is something that I didn't really want to put off and felt the need to share my excitement with everyone!

Last week, LaVaughn and I started going through a list of things that we actually NEED in our B.O.B. instead of things that we WANTED! There's a fine line there, because there are so many neat little gadgets that people make you believe that you need to survive any type of disaster.

Just a few MUST have items are: Water, Food, Shelter, Weapons.

Of course, there are other things you need as well, like warm clothes, hunting/fishing supplies, and medical supplies. We have quite a few medical supplies, but aside from water, ammo, and knives, we're lacking. Well, we were, anyways. :)

We paid First Aid Product a visit a little over a week ago and quickly racked up $80 worth of stuff. This isn't too much and shipping was nearly $15, so it's not as bad as it sounds. And for some reason half of our shit was back-ordered, but we still got a decent amount of loot.

I'll leave it at that and let the pictures do the talking...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Random updates to keep you entertained...

I would like to start with some actual GOOD news -- Pip is doing SO much better! The swelling on his nose has practically vanished and the swelling on his cheek is at a minimum, Looks like the antibiotics are doing the trick (knock wood), so he shouldn't have to go back to the vet anytime soon.

This is glider related, so I'll go ahead and share. The 1000 mealworms that I ordered earlier this week came with a few bonus worms. So not only did we get mealworms, but we got dermestid beetles as well. Yeah, no thanks. Definitely the last time I'll be ordering from them. Insert cringe face here...

As most of you know, the season 2 premiere of Fear The Walking Dead is on tonight. I'm finding it hard to reach the same level of excitement excitement as I do with The Walking Dead. I know that's probably never going to happen, but I DO want to watch it, so I'm not going to talk myself out of it. Although, Dying Light does sound rather appealing at the moment.

In other news, LaVaughn and I have really gotten into "survival" mode lately and starting rotating everything in our bug out bags, or 3-day survival kits, whatever you want to call them. We just ordered some more stuff from First Aid Product last night (food bars, water, portable stove, tube tent, etc). We should have it by the end of the week and, of course, I'll post about it. Should be exciting! It's only a matter of time before we'll be ordering more.

This coming week seems to be rather boring, so there's a good chance this will be my last blog for a few days. I have lots of stuff to sew and cut out, so that's going to occupy the majority of my time. So, until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Pics from the past few days:

Hmm... would could that be!

A sack of worms, maybe?

Pip picture update:

Doesn't he look SO much better?? Wait, did I post a before picture here? I think that was on my Instagram account.

Zoe giving me the stank eye while I was eating dinner.

She's such a begger.

Bug damn she's cute!

Dead in the water...

As exhausted as we still were yesterday evening, we still ended up going to town. We were too dead to stop anywhere Tuesday evening, so we just put everything off. Luckily, we just needed a few necessities, the rest was just see and grab type of things.

Believe it or not, 90% of those things were for our rats! We've been looking at all kinds of homemade rat toys online, so we decided to give some of them a try. We ended up winging the majority of everything we made, but that was half the fun.

After we returned home, goodies in hand, we made a few toys, then gave the rat's cage a nice deep cleaning. All of their fleecy items were dirty at the time, so they didn't have their double hammock and long hammocks, but they had so much else to keep them occupied, I don't think they even noticed.

In package news, we received our MRE today. In a word... awesome! We ordered the chili mac sauce stuff, which pairs famously with pizza -- which we were having for dinner -- so we decided to go ahead and give it a try. I recorded a video of it, but who knows when I'll get that uploaded. The flameless ration heater did what it says it would do and heated the MRE. It didn't get as warm as I would have liked, but that's our own fault for not letting it cook longer. Forgive us for being impatient and not being able to contain our excitement.

I definitely see more MRE's in our future!

We also got our suture kits today. Before your mind starts running 100s of ideas through your head, I'm going to go ahead and stop you and explain exactly WHY we received suture kits in the mail. It's pretty simple actually, they're for our bug-out bags. Or survival kits, whatever you want to call them. Part of me... who am I kidding, all of me wants to call it a Z-Day kit, but I'm going to keep myself grounded. Plus, I don't want to scare away what few readers I have. Unless you're just as paranoid as I am (wink, wink).

LaVaughn's huge lot of E.L.F. makeup arrived today. Wow, I don't think I've ever seen so much makeup in one box, lol. She did get a lot of nice stuff, though. Some stuff that I may even steal myself.

Now all I need is my violin. Ah yes, my beautifully stringed instrument. I hope picking up the violin for the first time is like me holding a camera, which is the most comfortable and effortless thing I can do/use. I hope it comes as easy to me as the piano did. Not that it came easy, but, you know.

Okay, I believe that's all for now. I still feel like I'm in a dream and get exhausted if I think too fast. I think I need another 10 hours of sleep. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Photos from last night:

A light-up ball we bough. It's given us hours of priceless fun.

Box of rat goodies.

Dude, childhood flashback! Tell me you remember the Magic Grow dinosaurs!? I've 'planted' one in a glass, but he hasn't grown very large as of yet. It says 400% larger in just a few short hours, but I'm thinking it's going to be like a few short days. Even with their faults, I still love them.

Eggs filled with goodies for the rats!

The rats' Easter box of fun.

Their temp cage set up.

Hanging Peeps.

A roll of toilet paper for endless hours of rat fun.

Peeps made them thirsty!

See how desperate they are?

Emilie was the first to brave the box.

Look at that face, Milla wants a Peep too.

This was when he was first dropped into the water.

He hasn't gotten much bigger today.

Zoe is such a princess. She has to be hand fed.

Photos from today:

LaVaughn's E.L.F. loot.

Shattered eye shadow... not fun.

Look at all them goodies!

Her brush set, that she loves.

Our suture kits in the box.

Aren't they awesome!?

Our MRE main course.

The flameless MRE heater.

The actual package of food.